Guidelines for 0.3 release

[Henri Fallon]

Intro
~~~~~
Here are the guidelines issued by the vlc team for the future releases
of the vlc :

Tasks marked '0.3' are to be accomplished for 0.3
tasks marked '0.4' ...
tasks marked '?' are not important and should be considered optional for
the time being.

Tasked marked '0.3' may be :
- critical in which case the release should be delayed if they are not
  acheived.
- important in which case there may be a solution to do without it
- improbable : we'd like them to be done, but we think we won't have
  time to do it.

Dates : 
~~~~~~~
- Code freeze : 29 apr 2001
- 0.3 release : 7 may 2001

we'd then like to release 0.4 by the end of june.

Features :
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  DVD : 
    title : no known serious bugs
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : important. If some very nasty bugs still remain, we'll 
              have to do with it.
    worked-on : stef	      


    title : multi-angle multi-language support
    description : some dvd have all the languages stored in the same
		  place. The ifo information has to be read to know 
		  how to separate them.
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : stef

   
    title : better color handling for subtitles
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : important
    worked-on : stef & sam

   
    title : core DVD menus support
    deadline : 0.4


  AUDIO :
    title : new working ac3 decoder
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : reno


    title : fix the synchro bug 
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : reno & sam

    
    title : ac3 hardware support
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : important. Still, we can do without it.
    worked-on : stef

    
  VIDEO :
    title : new video output system
    description : the new vout should support subtitles while working
                  with hard YUV, should self-adapt to the image size 
		  and not crash when changing stream.
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : sam


    title : Xvideo vout
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked on : Shane Harper & sam


    title : better 24bpp yuv support
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : important. We can still go back to 16bpp if this is not 
              done yet.
    worked-on : ?


    title : MGA YUV support
    deadline : 0.4


    title : DVD menus aware vout
    deadline : optional

    
  INPUT :
    title : support for non-system mpeg streams
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : improbable
    worked-on : alexis


    title : language and subtitles selection in network input
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : henri


    title : server/client synchronisation 
    deadline : 0.3
    description : the client decodes following his own clock. So 
                  does the server send his packets. If both clocks are
		  not exactly the same frequency, the input stack may
		  become full or empty from time to time
    gravity : important
    worked-on : henri


    title : Misc info between vlc and vls
    deadline : 0.3
    description : vls should send misc TS packets to let us know what
                  are the descriptions of the pid inside the stream. It
		  can be seem as a network ifo.
    gravity : improbable
    worked-on : henri for the vlc part.

    
    title : receive program information from vls or vlcs
    deadline : 0.4


    title : new packet allocator
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : important
    worked-on : asmax


  BUILDS : 
    title : vlc should work on Linux, BeOS, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : sam and each contributer

      
    title : built-in modules
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : sam


    title : decoders as plugins
    deadline : 0.4


  INTERFACE :
    title : better playlist support
    deadline : 0.4


    title : preferences handling
    deadline : 0.4


    title : cosmetics
    description : spashscreen, icon, beautiful font, use of OSD to 
                  overwrite the action being done.


    title : IR support ( the feature that kicks one's ass )
    deadline : optional


  NEW FEATURES : 
    title : mp3 support
    deadline : 0.4


    title : avi support
    deadline : 0.4

    
    title : vout in intf window
    deadline : 0.4


    title : windows port  
    deadline : 0.4


    title : RTP support 
    deadline : optional

    
Code cleaning :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Each developper should track old dirty and useless traces of 0.2 and
    remove them.

    The deprecated dumpbits and getbits macro should disappear.


Documentation :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    title : Write end-user documentation 
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : critical
    worked-on : ?

    title : write a developper documentation
    deadline : 0.3
    gravity : improbable. Code is commented, right ? :=)
    worked-on : ?


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The todo list is going to be updated tomorrow.
Have a nice day :)

-- 
henri